here's the pic i posted before, i don't have a digital camera so you'll have to wait to get the family shot.

i strung it with a set of DR hibeams and she SINGS. can get the gary willis/jaco bark or the smooth mwah easily, nice B string (of course), and i can actually play it 95% in tune with no fretlines! (i'm guessing my muscle memory is just really good after 10 years of playing electric.) that 6th string is pretty tricky though, i kept goofing up while sight reading stuff...

i think i might want to go to a lighter gauge of strings...or maybe sunbeams eventually...the SS hibeams @ 30-125 seem a little stiff for fretless but she sounds SO nice.

i'll get sound clips this weekend, and maybe take a webcam pic of my two babies

it's a 98, so it's got all the nice bits like a brass nut and 5 piece wenge neck.

it has a few more dings than were shown in the auction, most notable were the ones on the back of the neck, but they're on the treble side so you don't feel them when you're playing. and the volume pot is noisy and can still be turned past the "off" position yay mec!

nick man - LOL! i hope i didn't give the impression that i wasn't happy with this bass. i am VERY VERY happy with it and it's condition, and i still would have purchased it had i had pictures of the back of the neck - but still...

ari - yup, it's ovangkol, but it's some of the best looking ovangkol i've ever seen. it seems like the stuff now has really random looking grain and is more greenish in color, but this is almost like a dark brown zebrano wood in pattern. daddy likey. it's pretty heavy, and does neckdive just as badly as my old thumb did (but the body is a little bigger so i guess that counteracts the bigger neck) but i'm gonna call Gard when i get off work and order a comfort strapp for her

cs - i had a volume pot go noisy in my old thumb right before i sold it. and the volume pot in my ss2 is noisy but not too bad. now i don't mind the MEC pickups but the preamps blow. {bright idea} for now, i should pull all the electronics and wire it passive V-V-T with the pickups at 18v. {/bright idea}